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...aesthetic embodied in "Marimba," a 1976 work set to Steve Reich's "Music for Mallet, Instruments, Voices and Organ," is that of repetitive imagery. The intensity of repetition leads to clearer seeing, deeper insight; it's a curiously challenging boredom. The unfamiliar is so predictable as to become unexpected. Composer Steve Reich articulates this aesthetic in an essay defining music as a "gradual process." He writes, "I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music," a perfect description of "Marimba," a dance about form revealing itself...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Lubovitch at the Loeb, Soll, and New England Dinosaur | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

...both legs as the result of a spinal operation. In Miami, Mrs. Ellen Roll won $1,500,000 in damages for a postoperative drug dose that left her permanently disabled. In addition, out-of-court settlements of more than $100,000 are fairly common. When Baja Marimba Band Guitarist Ervan Coleman died in Los Angeles following a supposedly routine ear operation, for example, his widow sued the anesthesiologists. They settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Malpractice Mess | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...usually guarded by 20 tough gunmen, to his National Liberation Movement headquarters in his ancient armor-plated, black-windowed limousine. The car was formerly owned by Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza, who was assassinated in 1956; its floor was stacked with submachine guns. To his followers, who were celebrating with marimba music and firecrackers, Arana pledged that when he takes over on July 1 from Méndez Montenegro* he would "put an end to the anarchy in which we have been living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: A Step to the Right | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...SKELTON SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). John Wayne celebrates his 40th year in movies by joining Red in a few familiar-sounding skits like "The High and the Flighty" and "Hominy and True Grit." The Baja Marimba Band makes music for the occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 24, 1969 | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...

Author: By Leonard J. Lehrman, | Title: Harvard Band | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

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